CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-34042

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-02-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-732

Description

The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system. While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.

Affected configurations

• vmware spring security (>= 5.8.4 < 5.8.7) • vmware spring security (>= 6.0.4 < 6.0.7) • vmware spring security (>= 6.1.1 < 6.1.4) • vmware spring security 5.7.9 • vmware spring security 5.7.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References